Now that dyndns is starting to make you either a. pay money, or b. login every month, you would like to run your own Dynamic DNS services. I implement a secure dynds-compatible server in Perl CGI, hosted by Apache.

This assumes you have your own functioning server with a fixed IP that is running DNS service for at least one domain using the Bind DNS server. My personal setup is VirtualMin running on Ubuntu, so adjust accordingly if you’re

This is a brief guide to help you to install a newer version of Open Office on your Linux box w/out root access. For example, you could be installing into your home directory. Things have gotten a lot easier since the RHEL4 days.

Procedure
Basic Non-Root Install from RPMs

Download the RPM-based install for your distro and architecture. Example : Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
Unzip the Tar ball into the place you want to install Open Office
mkdir ~/oo_3.4
cd ~/oo_3.4
tar xvfz ~/Downloads/Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.1_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.

Intro

The latest Firefox 4 Beta (rc2) requires GCC 4.x and a libstdc++ to match. Unfortunately, Redhat EL5 and CentOS 5 / CentOS 5.5 do not meet this requirement, no matter how many packages you update. But, luckily for us our friend rkl found a solution and posted it on mozillazine. Much to our dismay, the mozilla developers have

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access. Ok, so technically for this edition of ch0wned you need to have root :-P Hint – Sys admins usually like beer.

Intro

You have a Logitech G500 or other multi-button mouse and want to get all the buttons working. These mice use the evdev driver in xserver. Unfortunately, Redhat EL5 ships with a very buggy version 1.0.0.5-5 !!!

NOTE: This post was never quite finished… hopefully these partial instructions help someone in the future…

You want to backup a linux box using the open source version of zManda – Amanda. You’ld like to use Amazon S3 for storage on the cloud, and have it encrypted, as well as use reduced redundancy. You’ld like to not pay more S3 fees than you’ld have to. You’ld like to be able to do a “bare-metal” restore in case

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.

Intro

Continuing my install series, here’s how you get OpenOffice 3 and Java w/ the Browser plugin working out of your homedirectory on an old linux install (EL4) without root access. I assume you already have a working 64-bit firefox compiled.

This guide assumes you’re leaving off from my previous post : http://warped.org/blog/2009/03/04/chown3d-part-2-gtk-and-glib-in-your-own-home-directory/ where you’ve setup a script called config_gapp.

ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a Linux user and don’t have root access.

Intro

So you want Firefox 3.new on your EL4 workstation and don’t have root access? Worse off it’s an x86_64 machine? This is not for the faint of heart, and you will run into some snags, but hopefully with my help you can make it work.